Improvement in devices for supplying locomotive-tenders with coal



s. T, FULLER & c.,A. MERRIAM. DEVICE FOR SUPPLYING LOCOMOTIVE TENDERS WITH COAL..

Patented July 25",-1876.

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UNITED STATES SIDNEY T. FULLER AND oHARLEs A. MERRIAM, oF PHILADELPHIA, PA.

APATENT OFFICE.

IMPROVEMENT INv DEVICES-FOR SUPPLYING LOCOMOTIVE-TNDERS WITH COAL.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 180,335, dated July 25, 1876 application filed I June 8, 1876.

To all whom fit may concern Be it knownthat we, SIDNEY T. FULLER and CHARLES A. MERRIAM, of Philadelphia,

Pennsylvania, have invented an Improved Device for SupplyingLocomotive-Tenders with Goal, of which the following is a specification:

Same.

A represents part of an elevated platform, built over a railroad-track, and having an opening, near one edge of which, on the under side of the platform, is hung a shaft, b,

provided at each end with a Weighted lever,

B, .extending above the platform, and 'in the center with arms @attached to one end of a chute, D, which, when the levers B are depressed, is elevated close to the under side of the platform. When the said levers are raised the chute is turned down, so as to form a continuation of the opening w, as shown by dotted lines in Fig. 1. Upon the top of the platform 'A are rails d, one on each side of the opening and adapted to the wheels of a coal-car, E, (shown byvdotted lines.) The Weights on the vlevers B are so adjusted as to balance the Weight of the chute D, and thus render the moving of the same easy of accomplishment; and to the lower end of the chute is attached a chain, j', to be attached tov the under side of the platform, for preventing the accidental depression of the-outer end of the chute.

The mode of supplying a locomotive-tender with coal b'y the above-described device is as follows: When the tender arrives beneath the opening x, the chute is depressed so that its lower end shall be immediatelyover the coalbunker of the same. The coal-car E is now moved over the said opening w and its contents dumped through the same, so aste pass through the chute into the tender, after which the chute is again raised out of the Way.

By the above-described device the tenders may be supplied with coal as rapidly as desix-ed, but twoattendants being required to effectthe operation'. We claim as our invention- In a device for supplying locomotive-tenders with coal, the combination of the elevated platform A,.shaft b, Weighted levers B, and chute D, all substantially as set forth.

In testimony whereof We have signed our names to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

SIDNEY T. FULLER. CHARLES A. MERRIAM. Witnesses: 1

HARRY HoWsoN, Jr., HARRY SMITH. 

